The boat that Jack built

One of the reasons we decided to invest in the Sea Shanti was to reduce our cost of living without sacrificing travel and adventure. A boat has costs associated with it. There’s a reason people call them “holes in the water you throw money into.” But if the boat is also your home and your car, if it’s got solar and wind power and a resourceful crew, it could also save a lot of money. Or at least that’s our theory.

We purchased the Shanti for $3000. She’s a project boat, but we decided to take a hard run at her. Jack cut back on his tech work to spend long hours at the boatyard. Fain spent the summer between family in North Carolina and Oklahoma so that Jack and I could move onto the boat, eliminate our extortionist rent, and make a mad dash at getting the Shanti comfortable by Fain’s return in September.

Jack is responsible for every single item checked off this Honey Do list. He’s gone out to the boatyard nearly every day, sometimes as early as 2am, to toil away at our future home. This is his first sailboat, and he’s had to learn everything the hard way – through trial and error. YouTube, books, and guys at the marina have been his guides. He’s run into 99 problems along the way, but he hasn’t met one he couldn’t solve yet.